Forecast Center Observation
| Date | 2020-12-30 |
| Location | Cordova |
| Observer | Travis Kukull |
| Avalanche | N |
General Observations
Skied Mumfords yesterday. Boot packed up 500 feet Then skinned up to 2700 feet just below the tree line. There is over 8 feet of snow up there but a solid skiable pack. We dug a pit and the ECT test did not propagate. The snow was slow going but fun. Beautiful day with a…
| Date | 2020-04-06 |
| Location | Cordova |
| Observer | Grant Wilson |
| Avalanche | N |
General Observations
South couloir packed with 1-2feet of fresh storm snow. Skied the upper couloir (from summit ridge) which joins the main couloir. Snowpit observations confirmed windloading of the recent storm snow (ranging 4-12in depth). The storm slab sat on 3ft of well bonded ice/granular snow. Performed a ski cut before my run, which popped a 40ft crown. Because there were…
| Date | 2019-03-30 |
| Location | Cordova |
| Observer | Ryan Tansey |
| Avalanche | N |
General Observations
A friend and I spent three days skiing Kalhabuk Mountain in the Brooks Range (Wiseman, AK). Since there’s no Brooks Range observation page and I’ve received a number of questions about the conditions from EARAC folks, I figured I’d post our report here. The skiing was phenomenal: great spring corn on eastern aspects and 6-12 inches of re-crystallized powder on northern aspects. We dug…
| Date | 2018-12-06 |
| Location | Cordova |
| Observer | Gareth Brown |
| Avalanche | N |
General Observations
Attached below is a pit dug on Lower Loveland Basin on Tuesday. In a few places that I have dug below 4000 feet I have found the second rain crust down to have quite a clean shear (SC-Q1) on this pit. Above 4500 feet the snow structure is different and the rain crusts wouldn't be…